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| 6222098760 | Personality | The psychological qualities that bring continuity to an individual's behavior in different situations and at different times. | 0 | |
| 6222098761 | Psychoanalysis | Freud's system of treatment for mental disorders -often used to refer to psychoanalytic theory as well. | 1 | |
| 6222098762 | Psychoanalytic Theory | Freud's theory of personality. | 2 | |
| 6222098763 | Unconscious | In Freudian theory, this is the psychic domain of which the individual is not aware but that is the storehouse of repressed impulses, drives, and conflicts unavailable to consciousness. | 3 | |
| 6222098764 | Libido | The Freudian concept of psychic energy that drives individuals to experience sensual pleasure. | 4 | |
| 6222098765 | Id | The primitive, unconscious portion of the personality that houses the most basic drives and stores repressed memories. | 5 | |
| 6222098766 | Superego | The mind's storehouse of values, including moral attitudes learned from parents and from society; roughly the same as the common notion of conscience. | 6 | |
| 6222098767 | Ego | The conscious, rational part of the personality, charged with keeping peace between the superego and the id. | 7 | |
| 6222098768 | Psychosexual Stages | Successive, instinctive patterns of associating pleasure with stimulation of specific bodily areas at different times of life. | 8 | |
| 6222098769 | Oedipus Complex | According to Freud, a largely unconscious process whereby boys displace an erotic attraction toward their mother to females of their own age and, at the same time, identify with their fathers. | 9 | |
| 6222098770 | Identification | The mental process by which an individual tries to become like another person, especially the same sex parent. | 10 | |
| 6222098771 | Penis Envy | According to Freud, the female desire to have a penis-a condition that usually results in their attraction to males. | 11 | |
| 6222098772 | Fixation | Occurs when psychosexual development is arrested at an immature stage. | 12 | |
| 6222098773 | Ego Defense Mechanisms | Largely unconscious mental strategies employed to reduce the experience of conflict or anxiety. | 13 | |
| 6222098774 | Repression | An unconscious process that excludes unacceptable thoughts and feelings from awareness and memory. | 14 | |
| 6222098775 | Projective Tests | Personality assessment instruments, such as the Rorschach and TAT, which are based on Freud's ego defense mechanism of projection. | 15 | |
| 6222098776 | Rorschach Inkblot Technique | A projective test requiring subjects to describe what they sees in a series of ten inkblots. | 16 | |
| 6222098777 | Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) | A projective test requiring subjects to make up stories that explain ambiguous pictures. | 17 | |
| 6222098778 | Psychic Determinism | Freud's assumption that all our mental and behavioral responses are caused by unconscious traumas, desires, or conflicts. | 18 | |
| 6222098779 | Neo-Freudians | Literally "new Freudians"; refers to theorists who broke with Freud but whose theories retain a psychodynamic aspect, especially a focus on motivation as the source of energy for the personality. | 19 | |
| 6222098780 | Personal Unconscious | Jung's term for that portion of the unconscious corresponding roughly to the Freudian id. | 20 | |
| 6222098781 | Collective Unconscious | Jung's addition to the unconscious, involving a reservoir for instinctive "memories," including the archetypes, which exist in all people. | 21 | |
| 6222098782 | Archetypes | The ancient memory images in the collective unconscious. Archetypes appear and reappear in art, literature, and folktales around the world. | 22 | |
| 6222098783 | Introversion | The Jungian dimension that focuses on inner experience-one's own thoughts and feelings-making the introvert less outgoing and sociable than the extravert. | 23 | |
| 6222098784 | Extraversion | the Jungian personality dimension that involves turning one's attention outward, toward others. | 24 | |
| 6222098785 | Basic Anxiety | An emotion, proposed by Karen Horney, that gives a sense of uncertainty and loneliness in a hostile world and can lead to maladjustment. | 25 | |
| 6222098786 | Neurotic Needs | Signs of neurosis in Horney's theory, these 10 needs are normal desires carried to a neurotic extreme. | 26 | |
| 6222098787 | Inferiority Complex | A feeling of inferiority that is largely unconscious, with its roots in childhood. | 27 | |
| 6222098788 | Compensation | Making up for ones's real or imagined deficiencies. | 28 | |
| 6222098789 | Traits | Stable personality characteristics that are presumed to exist within the individual and guide his or her thoughts and actions under various conditions. | 29 | |
| 6222098790 | Central Traits | According to trait theory, traits that form that basis of personality. | 30 | |
| 6222098791 | Secondary Traits | In trait theory, preferences and attitudes. | 31 | |
| 6222098792 | Cardinal Traits | Personality components that define people's lives; very few individuals have cardinal traits. | 32 | |
| 6222098793 | Self-Actualizing Personalities | Healthy individuals who have met their basic needs and are free to be creative and fulfill their potentialities. | 33 | |
| 6222098794 | Fully Functioning Person | Carl Roger's term for a healthy, self-actualizing individual, who has a self-concept that is both positive and congruent with reality. | 34 | |
| 6222098795 | Phenomenal Field | Our psychological reality, composed of one's perceptions and feelings. | 35 | |
| 6222098796 | Positive Psychology | A recent movement within psychology, focusing on desirable aspects of human functioning, as opposed to an emphasis on psychopathology. | 36 | |
| 6222098797 | Observational Learning | The process of learning new responses by watching others' behavior. | 37 | |
| 6222098798 | Reciprocal Determinism | The process in which cognitions, behavior, and the environment naturally influence each other. | 38 | |
| 6222098799 | Locus of Control | An individual's sense of where his or her life influences originate. | 39 | |
| 9103017839 | Thanatos | According to Freud, this was the part of the unconscious that was the driving force behind destructive and aggressive behaviors. | 40 |
